Portuguese people

Iberian Atlantic nation

Portuguese people are natives or citizens of Portugal, or people of Portuguese descent.

The term encompasses both nationality and ethnicity—someone born in Lisbon and someone whose grandparents emigrated from the Azores generations ago.

Portuguese people have settled communities throughout Brazil, the United States, and former colonies in Africa and Asia.

Related

Vasco da Gama · port wine · Magellan · Carnation Revolution · Age of Discovery · Algarve · fishing villages · Iberian Peninsula · festa · colonial trade · Madeira · Azores · cork oak · diaspora · maritime navigation · Henry the Navigator · remittances · custard tart

Opposites
Iberian Peninsula nationality

Portuguese peopleSpaniards

Citizens of Spain

Spanish people · Castilians · Catalans · Galicians · Andalusians

colonial/imperial rivalry

Portuguese peopleSpaniards

Citizens of Spain

Spanish people · Dutch people · British people · French people

colonizer/colonized relationship

Portuguese peopleBrazilians

Citizens of a South American nation

Angolans · Mozambicans · Timorese · Guineans

Family

Portuguese, Portugal, people, person, persons, peoples, peopled, peopling

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